Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Breast

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) of the breast represent extremely rare lesions. Due to the scarcity of reports, their natural history, recurrence, and metastatic potential remain poorly defined. We report on a case of a primary breast IMT in a postmenopausal female patient treated success...

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Autores principales: Markopoulos, Christos, Charalampoudis, Petros, Karagiannis, Evangelia, Antonopoulou, Zoh, Mantas, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705127
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author Markopoulos, Christos
Charalampoudis, Petros
Karagiannis, Evangelia
Antonopoulou, Zoh
Mantas, Dimitrios
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description Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) of the breast represent extremely rare lesions. Due to the scarcity of reports, their natural history, recurrence, and metastatic potential remain poorly defined. We report on a case of a primary breast IMT in a postmenopausal female patient treated successfully with breast conserving surgery and review the literature pertaining to this rare entity.
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spelling pubmed-43418472015-03-12 Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Breast Markopoulos, Christos Charalampoudis, Petros Karagiannis, Evangelia Antonopoulou, Zoh Mantas, Dimitrios Case Rep Surg Case Report Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) of the breast represent extremely rare lesions. Due to the scarcity of reports, their natural history, recurrence, and metastatic potential remain poorly defined. We report on a case of a primary breast IMT in a postmenopausal female patient treated successfully with breast conserving surgery and review the literature pertaining to this rare entity. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4341847/ /pubmed/25767734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705127 Text en Copyright © 2015 Christos Markopoulos et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Breast
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705127
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